Debates in Oral Infections and Microbes: 2023

Modern society depends on research and the advancement of science in order to achieve health and prosperity for all. However, to build on already successful science, we need to discuss the current challenges and issues faced.

Frontiers recognizes the importance of facilitating debate and discussion amongst the scientific community, and so has organized a series of Research Topics, offering a platform for such discussion to occur.

This Research Topic wishes to foster debate and discussion in the community, predominantly through opinion or perspective articles, around the following topics:

• Periodontitis or periodontal pathogens; which comes first?
• Oral microbiome: Is there an oral-brain axis?
• Number of missing teeth: the most important oral parameter in systemic health?
• Apical or marginal periodontitis: does it matter from a systemic health point-of-view?
• Are there definitive oral disease biomarkers?
• What role does fungal-bacterial-host cross-talk play in oral disease?
• Which mechanistic links support the connection between oral and systemic health?
• Has the Covid-19 pandemic altered oral healthcare and oral disease patterns
• Do fungal-viral interactions play a role in oral disease?
• What are the ectopic colonization routes of oral microbes in other human niches

Alongside opinion or perspective pieces, this Research Topic welcomes original research and review articles on the above themes.

Keywords: oral infections, oral microbiome, periodontitis, fungal infection, viral infection

Important note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.